A speech that attempts to influence another person’s values, beliefs, attitudes, or behaviors.
What is a persuasive speech?
100
The January 1986 spaceshuttle accident that sparked President Reagan to give a eulogy in which he referenced 'the surly bonds of Earth.'
What was the Challenger Explosion?
100
He wrote 'The Rhetoric.'
Who is Aristotle?
100
Introduction, presentation, tribute/eulogy, acceptance, and entertain.
What are types of epideictic or commemorative speeches?
100
It is the emotional appeal to your audience.
What is pathos?
200
A speech of tribute praising a person who has recently died.
What is a eulogy?
200
President Nixon's speech given to deal with rumors of unethical campaign spending.
What is the 'Checkers Speech?'
200
He wrote an essay titled 'The Rhetoric of Hitler's Battle' and he theorized on the rhetorical scapegoat, a concept taken up by many scholars, including Dr. Barry Brummett in his work on campaign rhetoric in 1980.
Who was Kenneth Burke?
200
These are the three types of influencing of attitudes, behaviors or opinions that can be done with persuasive speeches.
What are to instill, to change, and to intensify?
200
'How great of an athlete would I have been if I would have just been a foot taller?' is one example of this rhetorical device.
What is a rhetorical question?
300
A type of proposition that states what action 'should' or 'should not' be taken.
What is a 'proposition of policy'?
300
It is the type of speech given at graduation ceremonies to prepare the audience for the main speaker.
What is 'speech of introduction?'
300
This classical Greek rhetor came up with ethos, pathos, and logos, three modes of persuasion.
Who was Aristotle?
300
These techniques include motivating, relating your message, and assessing knowledge.
What are ways of connecting to your audience?
300
The Greek term for the concluding element of a 'logical argument' or the structural device used to make a persuasive appeal.
What is a syllogism?
400
The excessive agreement among group members who value conformity more than critical evaluation.
What is 'groupthink?'
400
Family, friends, cast mates, other nominees, and often, a higher power.
Who are those you should thank during an acceptance speech?
400
Jeffery Ross, notable 'roastmaster' and comic, gives these types of speeches at celebrity roasts.
What are speeches to entertain?
400
A fallacy that introduces irrelevant attention to deflect attention for the main subject.
What is a red herring?
400
These are Aristotle's three genres of rhetoric.
What are deliberative, forensic, and epideictic.
500
A false or erroneous statement or an invalid or deceptive line of reasoning.
What is a 'logical fallacy?'
500
An American journalist and close friend of former NBC Nightly News anchor, Tom Brokaw, a man who gave his eulogy.
Who was Walter Cronkite?
500
She was a Texas senator and in 1976 became the first African-American woman to give the keynote address at the Democratic National Convention.
Who was Barbara Jordan?
500
It's where the strongest element of an argument should be placed according to 'recency theory.'
What is at the end of a speech?
500
Plato wrote of this famous Sophist's debate with Socrates.